It’s a role McCain has long played, but it’s taken on a more serious tenor in the era of President Trump. McCain’s journeys to those far-flung places also drains the octogenarian — and it is beginning to show when he returns to the Capitol. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)That certainly is not the role McCain is playing around the world. More aptly, McCain is serving as a shadow secretary of state, trying to clean up or refute statements and positions that Trump has made. John McCain just systematically dismantled Donald Trump’s entire worldview“When Senator McCain is in the room, there’s just a different level of respect,” Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.

Source: Washington Post June 10, 2017 17:48 UTC